'The Minbari seemed to trust Jeff, which is strange, because they don't trust anyone, least of all humans.' The Colonel wiped his mouth with his napkin and continued.

'I went along, as I had some leave. So I met up with Jeff in the Minbari capital, Yedor. We talked about old times for a while, but I could tell there was something on his mind. Like he was making small talk but all the while trying to size me up. Then he asked if I wanted to see where he was staying. I agreed, thinking he maybe wanted to show me how well he was doing. So, we left and boarded a Minbari flyer. I didn't think anything of it, since Yedor is a massive metropolitan centre, and flyers are common, but when I saw we were leaving the city, I started to get a little worried.'

Vance could only imagine what his father's version of 'worried' was. This was a man who had spent years keeping himself alive behind enemy lines, surviving inhospitable environments where any second some hostile could try to cut him limb from limb.

'We flew to a different city about a thousand klicks away. I'd never seen anything like it, and when I asked Jeff, he told me it was called Tuzanor, the City of Sorrows.ПредыдущаяСледующая